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WHO IS IN THE CAST OF UNORTHODOX? The series centres around 19-year-old Esty (played by Shira Haas) who leaves her husband Yanky (Amit Rahav) after just one year of marriage. Finding herself
in a desperate situation she fleas to Berlin, where her mother Leah (Alex Reid) is living. Haas, an Israeli actress, has previously starred in Mary Magdalene and The Conductor, and she was
highly praised for her performance, taking on the role of the troubled teenager. Daniel Feinberg wrote for the Hollywood Reporter: "Haas' task here is prodigious, as is what she
achieves. Esty is apparently 19 for the bulk of the show, but Haas has to embody a character who has been sequestered into near childlike innocence and yet has been forced by circumstance to
be mature well beyond her years. "Boasting the stylish fragility of a shaved head — Esty, who presumably hasn't seen Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta, is surprised when people
admire her edgy hairdo — Haas has a visage that's at least 50 percent eyes and she spends the series on the constant brink of tears, happy and sad. "The eyes pull you in, and
it's almost unthinkable how the series would work with a less convincing performance, especially since Esty's new cohort is composed of characters who barely have names, much less
personality traits."